Next On Net Neutrality: Democrats Will Campaign On Reimposing Huge Government

Seton Motley is the president of Less Government, a DC-based non-profit organization dedicated to reducing the power of government and protecting the First Amendment from governmental assault.

One of America's leading authorities on technology and telecom policy, Motley is a writer, television and radio commentator, political and policy strategist, lecturer, debater, activist, and policy advisor to The Heartland Institute.

Before last year’s year-end tax reform success – there were in fact precedent legislative achievements by this Congress.

Behold the Congressional Review Act (CRA): “The law empowers Congress to review, by means of an expedited legislative process, new federal regulations issued by government agencies and, by passage of a joint resolution, to overrule a regulation.

“Once a rule is thus repealed, the CRA also prohibits the reissuing of the rule in substantially the same form or the issuing of a new rule that is substantially the same ‘unless the reissued or new rule is specifically authorized by a law enacted after the date of the joint resolution disapproving the original rule.’”

The Congress spent a good portion of the early part of 2017 passing CRA after CRA – happily signed again and again by President Donald Trump.

Except the CRA isn’t “obscure” or “secret” – it’s right there in the federal code. And the Congress and the President were very and repeatedly vocal about their pride in utilizing it to render the government very-much-less-than it was under preceding president Barack Obama.

The media just like to use scary words – no matter how false – when describing any non-Leftist action.

The Congressional Left watched in horror this repeated CRA reduction of government. And decided it was a good idea to use the CRA – to grow back a huge chunk of the government the Trump Administration rolled back.

And the media in reporting on it – have mysteriously misplaced their scary word thesaurus.

And we look forward to the impending resurgent return of tons of offshore corporate cash to revitalize and ramp up the job and wages markets – thanks to the much lower tax rates they are now paying.

And Democrats think campaigning on restoring the massive government Net Neutrality imposition on the Internet – 1/6th of our entire economy – is a winning campaign issue.

Missing entirely the fact that the Trump Administration’s promise-to-and-then-removal-of said massive government imposition – was and is a huge contributing factor to all of the fantastic and ever-more-promising economic news we are now so thoroughly enjoying.

Including fantastic economic news – for the massive corporations (Google, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix,…) who are insisting on this massive government imposition’s restoration.

Get that? “As Tech stocks lead.” That would be the likes of…Google, Facebook, Amazon and Netflix. Who are leading the historic, unprecedented, record-setting stock market charge – without Net Neutrality anywhere in sight.